{"id":"china-january-august-fiscal-revenue-spending","canonicalSlug":"china-january-august-fiscal-revenue-spending","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/china-january-august-fiscal-revenue-spending","language":"en","title":"China’s public budget revenue rises 5.7% through August","summary":"Revenue increased faster than spending in the first eight months, while government-fund income fell 19% year on year.","body":["China’s Ministry of Finance reported on 18 September that general public-budget revenue reached 15.6633 trillion yuan in January–August 2026, up 5.7% from a year earlier. Tax receipts rose 6.6% to 12.9104 trillion yuan; expenditure increased 1.2% to 18.1451 trillion yuan.","Government-fund budget revenue was 2.1419 trillion yuan, down 19%. Local land-use-right sales revenue fell 28.6% to 1.3753 trillion yuan. The ministry reports these as eight-month cumulative totals, not August-only figures."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"China’s public budget revenue rises 5.7% through August\n\nRevenue increased faster than spending in the first eight months, while government-fund income fell 19% year on year.\n\nChina’s Ministry of Finance reported on 18 September that general public-budget revenue reached 15.6633 trillion yuan in January–August 2026, up 5.7% from a year earlier. Tax receipts rose 6.6% to 12.9104 trillion yuan; expenditure increased 1.2% to 18.1451 trillion yuan.\n\nGovernment-fund budget revenue was 2.1419 trillion yuan, down 19%. Local land-use-right sales revenue fell 28.6% to 1.3753 trillion yuan. The ministry reports these as eight-month cumulative totals, not August-only figures.","category":"fiscal","region":"world","topics":[],"eventDate":"2026-08-31","eventDateBasis":"source-event-or-period","publishedAt":"2026-10-06T00:01:40Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-06T00:01:40Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":null,"sourcePublishedAt":"2026-09-18","translatedAt":"2026-10-05T23:43:24Z","sources":[{"name":"Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China","url":"https://gks.mof.gov.cn/tongjishuju/202609/t20260918_3997709.htm","checkedAt":"2026-10-05","publishedAt":"2026-09-18"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/china-january-august-fiscal-revenue-spending","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/china-january-august-fiscal-revenue-spending","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/china-january-august-fiscal-revenue-spending","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/china-january-august-fiscal-revenue-spending","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/china-january-august-fiscal-revenue-spending","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/china-january-august-fiscal-revenue-spending","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/china-january-august-fiscal-revenue-spending"},"corrections":[],"locations":[]}